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Jewelry boxes by Elena and Mikhail Shenshin

Jewelry boxes by Elena and Mikhail Shenshin

Jewelry boxes by Elena and Mikhail Shenshin

Jewelry boxes by Elena and Mikhail Shenshin
Creative duo of Russian artists Mikhail Shenshin and Elena Denisova have been working on lacquer miniature for about 20 years. According to them, they started from the traditional Fedoskino art, developing their own exclusive technique. From start to finish their beautiful lacquer boxes – entirely handmade. Elena, in particular, works in painting, and Mikhail is busy with all the rest. Traditionally, the artists use pearl, mother of pearl, gold leaf and gold for their bright boxes. Also, high craftsmanship and creativity. Such work of art can be passed down from generation to generation. Happily married for 20 years, Mikhail and his wife Elena live and work in Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region.
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Painting Child with Dove leaves Britain for Qatar

Child with Dove leaves Britain for Qatar. Child with dove, 1901, painting by Pablo Picasso

1901 painting by Pablo Picasso. Child with Dove leaves Britain for Qatar

Child with Dove leaves Britain
After the painting by Paul Cezanne “The Card Players” royal family of Qatar has acquired yet another masterpiece of modernism – “Child with a Dove” by Pablo Picasso. The Spanish cubist painted it at the age of 20. For Qatar, buying it has become a great success, but for the art community of Great Britain – it is an invaluable loss, which they could not escape. Alas, the numerous protests, the launched in England a national campaign to raise funds to purchase £ 50 million painting has failed. “Why is one of the major masterpieces of painting, owned by the UK still allowed to leave the country? Where were the Art Fund, the National Portrait Gallery,” Tate Modern?” – outraged British newspaper. The painting “Child with a Dove”, which was in the country since 1924, now flew off to the collection of Qatar.
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Faiyum portraits first realistic painting

Faiyum portraits first realistic painting on Earth

Faiyum portraits first realistic painting on Earth

Faiyum portraits first realistic painting on Earth
These wonderful portraits by unknown artists painted more than 2 thousand years ago, not for viewers and museums, were in fact, a kind of passport photo for afterlife. Egyptians were afraid very much that the gods in the afterlife would not be able to identify them because of the failure of embalming. Such realistic portraits were to be buried with the dead. Currently, there are about 900 funeral portraits found in the necropolis of Faiyum. Thanks to the dry Egyptian climate, many portraits are very well preserved, and, in most cases, even the paint looks still fresh.
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Gothic chapel on bones

Gothic chapel on bones

Сemetery church of All Saints in Czech town of Kutna Hora. Gothic chapel on bones

Gothic chapel on bones
Ossuary in Sedlec (chesh. Kostnice v Sedlci, cemetery church of All Saints with Ossuary) – Gothic chapel in Sedlec, a suburb of the Czech town of Kutna Hora. Noteworthy, human skulls and bones decorate the chapel. On the decoration of the chapel used about 40,000 human skeletons. In 1278, Henry, the abbot of the Cistercian monastery in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutna Mountains, was sent by the Czech King Otakar II to the Holy Land. He brought back some earth from Golgotha ​​and sprinkled it over the abbey cemetery. The news of this spread, and the cemetery has become a popular burial place of the people of Central Europe. Many thousands of people wanted to be buried in this cemetery. As a result of Medieval wars in the middle of XIV century, epidemics expanded greatly, particularly the epidemic of the Black Death.
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Sand animated art by Alyona Voynova

Sand animated art by Alyona Voynova

Sand animated art by Alyona Voynova

Sand animated art by Alyona Voynova
Born on 7th July, 1975 in Samara, Alyona Voynova (maiden name Gradova) is a talented sand artist. According to the girl, she loves sand painting most of all. Also, she participates in sand shows, creating sand animation, or sand art. Alyona draws with sand on the illuminated glass, and projected on the screen pictures – accompanied by music. Undoubtedly, the show is impressive. Alyona is a participant of numerous TV programs, shows, art exhibitions. She has more than 200 performances in 10 countries. In particular, Germany, Switzerland, France, Czech Republic, Greece, England, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, and Russia. She is the winner of the European award «Krone der Volksmusik» (Chemnitz, Germany 2011) in the “Intersection of Art.” Noteworthy, in 2012 she performed at the official opening ceremony of German House at XXX Olympiad in London.
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Hyperrealistic pencil drawings by Daniela Wolf

Hyperrealistic pencil drawings by Daniela Wolf

White Collar. Hyperrealistic pencil drawings by Daniela Wolf

Hyperrealistic pencil drawings by Daniela Wolf

Daniela Wolf writes “Today starts the third season of White Collar. I’ve started watching this show at the beginning of the year and loved it immediately. Of course one of the main reasons is Matt Bomer as forger and thief (and technological virtuoso) Neal Caffrey. So I decided to draw him…”.
According to Daniela, the tools she used for drawing this image – colored pencils. It took her only 3 days to complete the drawing, awesome. Talented German artist Daniela Wolf creates beautiful hyper realistic portraits with pencils, and they look like photographs. In her gallery – portraits of celebrities, fantasy drawings, still life and movie scenes. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the biography of the artist.
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Alice Liddell from Wonderland

Alice Liddell from Wonderland age 7, photo by Lewis Carroll, 1859

Age 7, photo by Lewis Carroll, 1859. Alice Liddell from Wonderland

Alice Liddell from Wonderland.
Alice Pleasance Liddell was born on May 4, 1852 in Westminster, London. The beautiful girl was the prototype of the character of Alice from “Alice in Wonderland”. “Alice in Wonderland” – one of the most famous works in the world. The relationship between Liddell and Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) has been the source of much controversy. Many biographers have supposed that Dodgson was romantically or sexually attached to the child, though there has never been any direct proof for this and more benign accounts assume merely a platonic fondness.
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Sad clowns by Rimma Vyugova

Sad clowns by Rimma Vyugova

Sad clowns by Rimma Vyugova

Sad clowns by Rimma Vyugova
Born in 1961 in Izhevsk, Rimma Vyugova graduated from Moscow Art-professional college, Painting faculty in 1982. Rimma is a member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia and the International Federation of Artists. Her first and next personal art exhibitions were annually in France, then in Austria, and throughout Russia. Vyugova is currently working on restoration of icons in Orthodox church in Izhevsk, Udmurtia. The beautiful gallery of the artist includes many wonderful art works – miniatures, paintings, graphics, iconographic, but I have chosen the colorful series “Clowns”, and here are inspirational quotes about clowns. “Dare to wear the foolish clown face”. Frank Sinatra
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Beautiful coffee paintings by Jenny Dolfen

Beautiful coffee paintings by Jenny Dolfen

Beautiful coffee paintings by Jenny Dolfen

Beautiful coffee paintings by Jenny Dolfen

Born in 1975 in Langen, a very small town south of Cuxhaven, Jenny Dolfen (Gold-Seven) is a German self-taught artist, illustrator and teacher. She teaches English and Latin at a private grammar school in Western Germany. Jenny has been working as a freelance illustrator since 2003. According to the talented artist, she has always loved to draw – at home, at school, on holiday, and on the bus. However, her main passion has always been Fantasy, from a very early age. Her inspiration with J.R.R. Tolkien started from her mother’s interest to the great English writer, poet and philologist. Now Jenny Dolfen transmits her admiration with characters by Tolkien to her own two children.
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